Course Description
This course includes the following topics:
- An Awareness of the legal aspects of the catheterization
- Knowledge of anatomy
- Physiology of the male and female urinary system
- Describe the reasons why catheterized patients develop urinary tract infection including host risk factors
- Identify the reasons for urethral catheterization.
- List complications associated with urinary catheterization
- Acknowledgement of the rationale for the types and size of urinary catheters to be used
- Describe the principles and practice of safe insertion including the principles of asepsis
- Demonstrate an understanding of infection control guidance to help prevent urinary tract infections associated with urinary caters
- Understand how to take urine samples
- The basic principle of antimicrobial prescribing
- Describe the importance of safe and effective discharge
